Looking into making a pumpkin beer here soon and was putting together a recipe for the Octobrauenfest (local home brew shop has a get together and brew day for the start of oktoberfest)

9lb Maris otter
5lb 2-row
2lb Victory malt
1lb 10L
4 cans of libbeys pumpkin, baked at 350* for an hour or two
1 package of graham crackers (one of the plastic packages in the box, or the whole box... no idea yet)

I've never used candied ginger in a beer before, but a whole ounce sounds like a lot (just thinking that it is as much ginger as a packet of hops). Ginger is powerful stuff and I would be hesitant to use that much.

Probably true about the ginger, and you probably want to be careful with the clove, I haven't had experience with it, but I have heard a lot of people say you normally want to avoid cloves in a recipe as it can taste like an off flavor.

Probably true about the ginger, and you probably want to be careful with the clove, I haven't had experience with it, but I have heard a lot of people say you normally want to avoid cloves in a recipe as it can taste like an off flavor.

good point about the cloves...just looked back over my pumpkin beer recipe (which I really enjoy) and it only uses 1/8th a teaspoon of ground cloves for a 3.5-gallon batch. I went pretty low on all the spices in fact:

So, i brewed this last saturday.
OG ended up being 1.120.
added 2g of dried ginger and 6g of pumpkin pie spice (3 tsp). smelled and tasted just like malted pumpkin cookies. was awesome!
Now that it's fermenting awesomely (krausen was ridiculous night before last). i'll let it go for a few weeks and drop in a few vanilla beans and let that ride out... crossing my fingers!

9lb Maris otter
5lb 2-row
2lb Victory malt
1lb 10L
4 cans of libbeys pumpkin, baked at 350* for an hour or two
1 package of graham crackers (one of the plastic packages in the box, or the whole box... no idea yet)